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This might be a hot take but I’m just feeling tired of nostalgia. Yes I loved the childhood memories with boy bands & specific toys but I’m don’t desire to go back in time and experience it all over again. I enjoy listening to new music, trying out new restaurants and going to new places. Does anyone else feel this way?

In honor of today’s Stanley Cup Parade, wanted to reminisce and share photos of our Stanley Cup parade in 2008. Can’t believe it’s been 18 years.

I have the honor of attending at the age of 17. Drove from Muskegon, we left at 4:30am, got there at around 8am, parked & walked to the parade route. It was cool seeing all the players in their own individual vehicles, made it feel more personal. After the parade, we walked down to Hart Plaza. Could not believe how many people were in attendance; an estimated 1.4 million people. We celebrated and enjoyed the speeches. Afterwards, we made our way up to the front and I got Chris Osgood to sign my Fedorov jersey. Still have it hanging in my closet. Hope to attend another parade in Detroit in my lifetime. 💕

Today, you are going to be a part of Stanley Cup history. Enjoy it! You are all there for one united reason, be kind to each other, make friends with strangers, make memories that last a lifetime.

Having shared the experience and fondest memories of attending a Stanley Cup parade in Detroit, it’s going to be a great day in Raleigh. 💕

For those who feel asleep or turned off the game.

Manny Malhotra had an extensive hockey résumé long before he ever ended up with the Abbotsford Canucks.

Drafted seventh overall by the New York Rangers in 1998, Malhotra played 16 NHL seasons, totaling 991 regular-season games. He won the Calder Cup with the Hartford Wolf Pack in 2000. Right after retiring as a player, he went directly into coaching and development. First came a development coaching role with the Vancouver Canucks in 2016 before three seasons as an assistant coach. Then it was on to the Toronto Maple Leafs for another four seasons as an assistant coach.

That résumé lacked just one major line on it: head-coaching experience.

That’s where Abbotsford came in two years ago. Malhotra left Toronto to take the Abbotsford head-coaching job on May 24, 2024. Thirteen months later, he had his hands on the Calder Cup again. And a little more than two years after taking that Abbotsford post, he is back in the NHL once again.

This time it’s as a head coach. Vancouver general manager Ryan Johnson, newly promoted himself from Abbotsford last month, announced Monday that Malhotra was his first NHL head-coaching hire.

Malhotra packed a lot into his two seasons behind an AHL bench, going 72-61-6-5 with Abbotsford. In his first season leading the club, he engineered a midseason turnaround and took a mid-pack team through a torrid second half. From there, Abbotsford pushed through five rounds of the Calder Cup Playoffs and defeated the Charlotte Checkers in six games for Vancouver’s first Calder Cup championship. Along the way he sent defensemen Victor Mancini and Elias Pettersson along with forwards Arshdeep Bains, Linus Karlsson, Aatu Räty and Max Sasson among others on to Vancouver as well.

But it was his second season that provided a much different learning experience. Offseason departures, injuries, and promotions to the Vancouver roster hit Abbotsford hard. With a heavily remade roster, Abbotsford went 3-12-1-2 in the first quarter of this season. Those early setbacks left Abbotsford in deep trouble, standings-wise, and the team never really ever made its way into contention for a return trip to the Calder Cup Playoffs. Dealing with an ever-changing roster, Malhotra eventually used 52 different players, including six goaltenders.

What Abbotsford did manage to do, however, was to stay competitive. After that disastrous first quarter, the team went a solid 25-25-3-1 the rest of the way and caused some Pacific Division havoc in April with a 6-1-1-0 finish.

The Johnson-Malhotra combination succeeded in Abbotsford on both the development and winning fronts. The hope in Vancouver is that success can carry over to the parent team. Vancouver finished last in the NHL this season with a 25-49-8 record, 14 points behind the 31st-place Chicago Blackhawks. That finish led to the ousters of general manager Patrik Allvin along with head coach Adam Foote and assistant coaches Kevin Dean, Brett McLean and Scott Young.

Johnson took over for Allvin on May 14. Franchise legends Daniel and Henrik Sedin are Vancouver’s new co-presidents of hockey operations; the pair have experience working with Abbotsford prospects as well. Jim Rutherford, who had been the team’s president of hockey operations, will move into a senior advisory role. Amid all this change, Malhotra’s promotion means that Vancouver will have had three head coaches in as many seasons.

Malhotra’s playing career featured parts of three seasons with Vancouver, including the team’s run to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final in 2011. There is considerable work to do to make Vancouver a winning club again. That work continues later this month at the NHL Draft, where the Canucks have 10 picks, including four of them in the top 41 selections.

“I think one thing that we experienced in Abbotsford was that the commitment to the daily improvements was something that helped our group get to where we did over the course of the year,” Malhotra said at his introductory press conference Thursday in Vancouver. “And I think that is one of the major reasons why this is such a special opportunity.”

Certainly that poor start made it obvious early in the season that Abbotsford’s playoff chances looked dim at best. That did not mean that it had to be a lost season, however. With the turnover that Abbotsford experienced, Malhotra and his coaching staff really dug into the teaching element of the job in year two. He had to rebuild the team’s foundation nearly from scratch, and he did. By the end of the season, Abbotsford had become a team capable of handling opponents chasing Calder Cup Playoff spots.

That same approach will need to continue in Vancouver with a rebuilding NHL team.

“You’ve heard [Johnson] talk about developing and building that foundation of what this group needs to be about and harping on that same messaging every day,” Malhotra continued. “For me and our coaching staff, it’ll be about those daily incremental improvements. Today’s practice needs to look better than yesterday’s practice. The level of execution needs to be better than it was yesterday, and I think by developing that mindset with the guys, you now start to see individual growth. You now see collective growth in the group. and that’s where we’ll start to take strides.

“The opportunity to instill those things from day one is one of the things that really excites me.”

Malhotra stresses the concepts of body language and maintaining positive energy. Even in a second season in Abbotsford that he calls “humbling,” he stuck to those concepts. Bad times in any sphere of life are what someone makes of them. Those struggles can spiral and cause even more problems. A losing team can turn sour and send players off to a variety of personal agendas. Or those rough times can build resilience and serve up lessons to take forward.

Malhotra wanted to take a tough season and make something useful from it. This was not the joy of pushing through the Calder Cup Playoffs and chasing a title. A significantly different challenge tested him this season.

“You have to live it,” he explained of staying true to those concepts even when circumstances test that commitment. “You know, it’s very easy to be in a great mood when things are going well, and you’re winning playoff rounds, and everybody’s on a high. It’s the ability to find that energy and present the right body language when things aren’t going right. And for us as a staff, we knew we were in a much different predicament, but our focus was to maintain that same level of emotion, the same level of preparation, the same level of energy coming to the rink every day.

“I think that messaging got through to the guys.”

Relive the 2006 Stanley Cup Final, when captain Rod Brind’Amour led the Carolina Hurricanes to their first and only Stanley Cup against the Edmonton Oilers!

If you are heading to Kid Cudi tonight, the McConnell/Ionia lot across from the Downtown Market has a free shuttle 😉

✅ Starts 1.5 hours before the event

✅ Shuttles will operate for 6.5 hours

✅ Expect the shuttle around every 20 minutes

💔 This shuttle is not wheelchair accessible

🤝 Operated by Great Lakes Motorcoach

First Lutheran Church
1206 N Whitehall Road
Muskegon, MI 49445

Service Day Thursday 10am-12pm

Dates of Service
June 18, 25
July 9, 16, 23, 30
August 6, 13

*New summer meal guidelines this year, families can only pick up for their own family. At site, we will ask parents to sign their names and list their children.* First come, first serve. Arrive at the church, sign in, grab your food bag(s) & milk and that’s it.

7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, a gallon of milk, fresh fried & veggies PER KID/TEEN. This is open to the community, you do not have to attend N. Muskegon Public Schools. This is paid for by the State of Michigan and our tax payer dollars so why not utilize it. Definitely helps cut down on the grocery bill over the summer. 💕